How do I split my x-axis into multiple plots in ggplot?

Question

I have the following dataset:

df <- as.data.frame(cbind(Position = c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10), 
    Value = c(11.31, 10.39, 9.50, 6.61, 5.41, 
    3.88, 3.81, 1.25, 0.70,10.41)))

I would like to plot this as a bar plot with Position values 1-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10 in separate plots, i.e. 4 separate plots below each other. Is there an easy way of doing this in ggplot?

EDIT: I would like to achieve this without having empty Positions.

Cheers, Joseph

Answer 1

The easiest way would be to use facet_grid():

ggplot(df, aes(x=Position, y=Value))+
    geom_bar(stat='identity')+
    facet_grid(~group,scales='free')

Or else,for more control,you could try creating individual plots & using gridExtra package to combine them.

#Data
enter df <- as.data.frame(cbind(Position = c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10), 
                      Value = c(11.31, 10.39, 9.50, 6.61, 5.41, 
                                3.88, 3.81, 1.25, 0.70,10.41)))
#Grouping
df$group<-cut(df$Position,breaks=c(0,3,6,9,100),c('0-3','4-6','7-9','10'))

#Creating Individual Plots
p1=ggplot(subset(df,df$group=='0-3'), aes(x=Position, y=Value))+
    geom_bar(stat='identity')+
    ggtitle('0-3')

p2=ggplot(subset(df,df$group=='4-6'), aes(x=Position, y=Value))+
  geom_bar(stat='identity')+
  ggtitle('4-6')

p3=ggplot(subset(df,df$group=='7-9'), aes(x=Position, y=Value))+
  geom_bar(stat='identity')+
  ggtitle('7-9')

p4=ggplot(subset(df,df$group=='10'), aes(x=factor(Position), y=Value,width=Value/10))+
  geom_bar(stat='identity',width=0.7)+
  ggtitle('10')+
  xlab(label='Position')

grid.arrange(p1,p2,p3,p4,ncol=2,nrow=2,main='Plot')

Answer 2

Is this what you're looking for?

df <- transform(df, Position=as.factor(Position),
    group=as.factor(findInterval(Position, c(1, 4, 7, 10))))

ggplot(df, aes(x=Position, y=Value, fill=Position)) + 
    geom_bar(stat='identity') + 
    facet_grid(group ~ .)